Gorilla News
- Experts
- Version: 3.5
- Updated: 30 September 2026
- Activations: 10
Gorilla News 3.5 — Trade News comfortably.
NOTE: a user guide is available in the Comments section (zip file attached).
How Gorilla News Works
Gorilla News is a professional, news-straddle trading Expert Advisor for MetaTrader 5 designed to exploit the volatility of the market during major news events and announcements, the moments when price can move fast and far in a very short time.
Everything, from spotting the next event to protecting the trade afterward, happens inside one clean, resizable on-chart panel organized into four focused tabs: News, Order, Protect, and Settings.
The Expert Advisor does not try to predict which way the price will move: it is trade-direction agnostic. Instead, it uses straddle orders, a buy and a sell order placed simultaneously ahead of the release. When the news hits and price runs in one direction, the losing side is closed by its stop loss while the winning side keeps running, with break-even, trailing stop, and other protection available to manage it.
Account type: the Expert Advisor works on both Netting and Hedging accounts, but Gorilla News was designed for Hedging accounts, because a straddle needs a buy and a sell open on the same symbol at the same time. On a Netting account, Single Order mode is fully supported, while Straddle mode is not available.
Order logs: every trade is documented step by step in the Experts tab of the MetaTrader 5 platform, from advanced order setup and execution (fill price, lot size, SL/TP) through to how, when, and at what price each order closed. See Detailed Order Logs below.
Gorilla News works across a wide range of tradable markets. Attach it to any chart and trade:
- FOREX pairs — majors, minors, and exotics
- Commodities — gold, silver, oil, and more
- Indices — major global stock indices
- Cryptocurrencies — supported crypto CFDs offered by your broker
- Contracts for Difference (CFDs) — any CFD instrument available on your trading account
At the core of Gorilla News is a straddle engine: it places a buy and a sell order simultaneously ahead of a scheduled news release, so you're positioned for a breakout in either direction. You choose the event, arm the panel, and Gorilla News handles the timing and execution automatically, with no need to sit at your screen counting down the seconds.
The panel keeps you informed at all times with a live account bar showing balance, equity, floating profit/loss, and margin. It can be minimized, resized, or dragged anywhere on your chart, so it never gets in the way of your analysis.
General Panel Features
- Live account bar: balance, equity, P&L, and margin at a glance
- Minimize / close controls for a clean chart when needed
- Fully resizable and movable: drag to reposition anywhere
- Four organized tabs: News, Order, Protect, Settings
News Tab — Never Miss a Release
The News tab streams upcoming economic calendar events directly into the panel. Simply check the box next to an event you want to trade, and Gorilla News automatically queues it and arms the straddle, and a live countdown begins immediately. If the event has already passed or you change your selection, the panel intelligently re-queues to the next valid event. When the countdown hits zero, both orders fire instantly.
- Live economic calendar feed built into the panel
- One-click arm: checking an event's box queues and arms the straddle automatically
- Real-time countdown to the scheduled release
- DISARM button to cancel a queued trade at any time
- Filter the calendar by currency and by impact level
- Manual date/time entry for trading outside the calendar (custom timed events)
- Three order modes: Auto Straddle, Manual Straddle, or Single Order
- Live straddle configuration display (SL, TP, lots, offset, slippage, spread cap, magic number)
- Live legs display showing both open positions and running P&L the moment they trigger
Order Tab — Full Manual Control
Beyond automated news trading, the Order tab gives you complete command over individual trades. Set your stop loss and take profit visually by dragging directly on the chart, size your position using flexible risk-based methods, and manage open trades with one-click tools.
- Manual Straddle button: fire a buy and sell instantly, independent of the news calendar
- Visual SL/TP setup by dragging on the chart
- Flexible lot sizing: fixed lots, Risk %, Risk $, Balance %, or Equity %
- Trade Split: divide a single order into 2–8 smaller sub-orders
- Custom trade comment tagging
- Manual Break-Even button: instantly move every open position's stop to break-even
- Partial Close by percentage
- One-click Close Trades: close all profitable positions, all losing positions, or everything at once
- Live straddle P&L summary, tracking both legs and the combined total
Protect Tab — Automated Risk Management
Trading the news is only half the job. Protecting the position afterward is what turns a good entry into a good result. The Protect tab runs continuously in the background, managing your open trades according to rules you set once.
- Auto Break-Even: automatically moves your stop to break-even once a trade reaches your chosen profit threshold
- Trailing Stop: locks in profit progressively as price moves in your favor, with configurable start distance, trail distance, and step
- Equity Protect: automatically closes all positions if your account equity crosses a drawdown or profit target you define
- Stealth Mode: keeps stop loss and take profit values off the broker's server entirely, managing exits internally on your terminal
Settings Tab — Make It Yours
Personalize the panel's appearance with a selection of built-in color themes, so Gorilla News fits your chart setup and trading style.
- Choose from a range of built-in color themes
Advanced Order Setup
- Three stop loss / take profit placement modes for automated straddles:
- Immediate — SL/TP sent with the orders
- Delayed / Naked — orders placed first, SL/TP attached seconds before the news
- Wide then Tighten — start with a wide safety stop, tighten it just before the release
- Instrument-aware distances: pips on forex pairs, price units (such as dollars) on commodities, indices, and CFDs
- Optional auto-close of the straddle a set number of minutes after the news release
- Strategy Tester ready: backtest with a built-in historical news calendar, with filters by event type and by month
Detailed Order Logs (Experts tab)
- Order fired — direction, fill price, lot size, and SL/TP for each leg of the straddle or single order
- SL/TP attached — the exact price and distance when using the Delayed or Wide modes
- Trailing Stop and Break-Even activity — when trailing starts, each step the stop moves, and when break-even is applied
- Order closed — how it closed (stop loss, take profit, trailing stop, break-even, manual close, or equity protect), the close price, the real pips (forex) or price units moved, and the profit/loss
- Straddle report — a final summary with duration and the combined result of both legs
- Skipped trades explained — a clear message whenever a trade is blocked or not fired (spread too wide, insufficient margin, hedging account required, and so on)
Additional Safeguards Built In
- Maximum slippage protection per order
- Maximum spread filter, working across forex pairs, commodities, and indices
- Margin safeguards: minimum free margin, minimum margin level, and a check that your account can cover both legs before a straddle is placed
- Configurable magic number for clean trade identification and compatibility with other EAs
Whether you're trading NFP, central bank rate decisions, or any other scheduled high-impact release, Gorilla News handles the precision timing so you can focus on strategy: arm it, let it execute, and let the Protect tab manage the rest.
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